In article 92-01-118 (Bill Maguire) writes:>... but not as a good modern compiler text. What constitutes a>good modern compiler text? Are there any in existence?

It depends on just what you want. If you want a grounding in the basics
-- the things that the "modern compiler" people tend to assume are
trivial, but aren't, at least not to a beginner -- the much-maligned
dragon book does a reasonably good job. If you want to know about all the
wild and wonderful things on the forefront of research, I think you're out
of luck when it comes to actual textbooks; they don't write textbooks
about that sort of thing, so you have to dig through things like the
ASPLOS and Sigplan proceedings instead. I suspect there is enough middle
ground now to justify an "advanced compilers" text, but I don't know of
one.
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Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology, henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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